The sourcebook on climate-smart agriculture aims to enhance food security and development goals by creating synergies between food security, climate change adaptation, and mitigation. It provides a framework for implementing climate-smart practices through a partnership of organizations and offers resources for planners and policy makers. The document highlights the need to address multiple agricultural challenges holistically while promoting resilience and sustainable practices.

1. Transforming landscapes and food systems
Options for strengthening food security under climate
change
Sourcebook on climate-smart agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Lucia Palombi
Natural Resources Officer, FAO
SBSTA of UNFCCC, Bonn
4 June 2013

2. How to address the multiple demands
placed on agriculture
• create synergies! between food
security, climate change
adaptation and mitigation
Main objective:
• Pathway towards enhanced
food security and development
goals
• ALL AGRICULTURAL SECTORS
Adaptation
Mitigation
Synergies
Productivity &
income increase
CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE
Encompassing 3 pillars:

3. CSA - key features
 Strives to achieve multiple objectives
• Addresses adaptation and builds resilience to shocks;
• Considers climate change mitigation as a potential co-benefit;
 Is a location-specific and knowledge-intensive approach
• Identifies integrated options that create synergies and reduce trade-offs;
• Identifies barriers to adoption and provides appropriate solutions;
• Strengthens livelihoods by improving access to services, knowledge and resources;
• Integrates climate financing with traditional sources of agricultural investment.
It brings together practices, policies and institutions that are not necessarily
new but are used in the context of climate change
What is new?
Multiple challenges faced by agriculture and food systems are
addressed simultaneously and holistically

4. www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart
Origins of the sourcebook
26-28 July 2011, FAO HQ, Rome, Italy
100 experts/stakeholders
3 main product recommendations:
1. Sourcebook with principles for CSA implementation aimed
at planning and project managers in the various fields
2. A web platform to act as a central hub of technical
information, linked to existing resources
3. CSA Partnership established (FAO/IFAD/WB/WFP/UNEP,
GM and CCAFS/CGIAR)

5. Sourcebook purpose
Clearly define the concept of climate-smart
agriculture, demonstrate its potential as well as
limitations and facilitate decision makers and
practitioners at a number of levels.
The sourcebook aims to show how CSA could be
achieved, and what it would take to achieve it.
It analyses existing solutions and barriers and
demonstrates how they could be used to promote the
uptake of CSA.

6. www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart
Sourcebook: structure and target audience
1. Concept and scope
Section A: The case for Climate-Smart Agriculture
2. Landscape approach
Section B: Improved Technologies and Approaches for Sustainable Farm Management
Section C: Enabling Frameworks
4. Soils3. Water 5. Energy
14. Finance13. Policies 15. DRR 18. Assessment16. Safety nets
17. Capacity
development
12. Institutions
TARGET
AUDIENCE
PLANNERS
PRATICTIONERS
POLICY
MAKERS
6. Genetic
resources
7. Crops 8. Livestock 9. Forestry 10. Fisheries and
aquaculture
11. Food chains

7. Partnership
A partnership between FAO, IFAD, UNEP, WB, WFP, the
Global Mechanism of UNCCD and CGIAR/CCAFS has
been created to address knowledge gaps and support
countries in implementing CSA.

8. Implementation
• It is a reference tool for planners, practitioners and
policy makers working in agriculture, forestry and
fisheries.
• The CSA web platform facilitates stakeholders’ access
to additional information, case studies, manuals and
practices.
www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart

9. THANK YOU
Contact: Climate-Smart@fao.org